#Shadowsleetshipping

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Twitter thoughts concerning Cress and his endgame partner

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In honor of the anon who asked about Lavender and Laurel, I figured it was time to post the questionable family tree outlining all of Cress’ children.  And yes, Sage, Laurel, and Lavender are triplets, despite all having different fathers. 

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Who is Lavender and Laurel?

This turned into the sordid hook-up drama of Cress, but that’s the main part I’ve thought about sooo…

Lavender and Laurel are two characters I’ve retconned in,  being triplets with Sage as their third sibling.  Despite being triplets, the three are half-siblings, each having a different biological father while Cress is their mother. Sage is still the daughter of Siebold, Laurel is the son of Wulfric, and Lavender is the daughter of Wikstrom.While I debated whether I should add them, as it does lead to me having to switch things up with Sage a bit, I really wanted to run a half-triplet subplot, but debated who to use. Cress was an obvious option to run that storyline with, given his characterization, and it was easier to add two fankids with Sage as one of the triplets, over giving Sage three younger siblings.   Plus the storyline behind Sage’s conception already fits well with why Cress would be getting into the kind of situations capable of leading to three different fathers for each of his babies. The basic premise behind their conception it just a tweak on Sage’s conception.  After Burgundy and Chili find out they’re expecting their first child, Cress gets baby fever.  He’d already been struggling with the fact he had left his son, Sorrel, back in Unova. At the time, giving Sorrel to Concordia and Anthea to raise was the only decision he could really make, but now that they aren’t in Team Plasma anymore, he’s starting to have regrets.  But instead of being sensible and just contacting the sisters in an attempt to reestablish contact with his son, he instead decides he’s going to have another baby, one he can keep and raise himself this time.He doesn’t tell anyone what he’s planning (although his brother’s are able to guess what’s going on once he ends up pregnant) and starts setting things up so he can get pregnant and still have it look like an accident. Replacing his birth control with fake pills, pushing for unprotected sex more when he does hook up (which doubles as a way to test who’s going to be open to the idea once the timing is right). While he is seeing Siebold, the two have an open relationship at this point.  Since they’re not official, both still see other people, which Cress uses to his advantage to hook up. He has his preferred partners, Siebold being the main one, but he also gets involved with other people, one of them being Wulfric.While they don’t meet up that often since Cress has to travel to Snowbelle whenever he wants to see him, Wulfric becomes another favored partner of Cress’.  While Wulfric is a bit too gentle for Cress’ taste, he makes up for it in just how big he is in general. Cress thrives off pain, and no matter how gentle Wulfric is, it always hurts a bit at first from the sheer size difference.  Plus of all his partners, Wulfric is maybe the one who “gets” Cress the most.  Siebold can tell when Cress is lying, but Wulfric is the one who recognizes that a lot of Cress’ poor decisions are a result of sometime painful from his past.  Which is why he’s always gentle despite Cress urging for him to be rougher.  Although that’s part of the appeal to Cress as well, even if he won’t admit it even to himself. A much larger, older man who actually takes care of him during and after the act. What he always wished he would do when they…As for Wulfric, he mainly goes along with the whole thing because some young twenty-something year old being really into him is flattering. Not gonna say no to that. And once he starts to recognize Cress’ self-destructive tendencies, he figures it’s not his place to ask, but what he can do is give him what he needs over what he wants. Tender sex with aftercare, an actual relationship between them, since they start doing more than just sleeping together when they meet up.  Talking, bonding through Pokemon, whether it be through battles or taking Cress to the Pokemon Village.Cress doesn’t have as much of a significant relationship with Wikstrom. They mainly get involved once Cress asks Siebold to try and arrange a threesome between the three of them (solely because Cress thinks it would be exciting).  It takes a lot of badgering on Cress’ part before Siebold agrees to even consider the option (Wikstrom is his coworker after all, he’d might be fine with the idea, but he doesn’t need Wilstrom getting awkward about things after the fact, considering how often he sees the guy), but Siebold does agree to eventually introduce Cress to Wikstrom.  It’s up to him convince Wikstrom after that though, he’s not going to bring the idea up himself.Wikstrom is much more hesitant to go along with the idea, since at heart, he’s a hopeless romantic. But Cress is pretty convincing, maybe it would be fine to try it out?  He’s starting to get older now, waiting for “the one” doesn’t seem to be doing him any good. Plus he’s always being told he needs to put himself out there more.   Wikstrom really only agrees because he figures he can back out in the middle or just pretend it never happened if it ends up being a bad experience.  The meet ups between the three of them aren’t very common.  Something that happens a occasionally here and there, since while Wilstrom finds that he really likes the experience, he also feels guilty about liking the hook-ups.So given that setup, when Cress decides that he wants a baby, he goes through the list of possible “donors” and tries to pick the best candidates.  He’s not overly concerned with the father helping him raise the child, in fact, them not being very involved might be better, but he also doesn’t want to choose someone shady.  He has a couple hook ups like that, with less than kind people, but considering who Sorrel’s father is and where that lead, he wants to choose a guy who’s a “good person.”  That leaves Siebold, Wikstrom, and Wulfric as his main choices.  Guys who’ve shown they’re all skilled and powerful, but also fight on the side of “good.”  Instead of just choosing one, Cress decides he’ll just sleep with all of them and leave things up to chance.  Let luck decide.He already has a pretty solid idea of how his cycle times out, and knows that he’s only going to get two shots at this a year (since his cycle is fucked up by all the suppressants Ghetsis had him take, he only goes through his heat cycle every six months, instead of the usual three months), so he needs to make the next chance he gets count. He starts forming his plan near the end of Burgundy’s pregnancy and then once Mace is born, it just solidifies for him that he’s going to go through with it.  No doubts now.When he can tell he’s roughly two days from starting his heat, he sleeps with Wulfric.  Figures there will still be some semen in his system for when he starts ovulating, so that takes care of that guy.  For Siebold and Wikstrom, he arranges for them to have a threesome during his heat.  Says it will be especially exciting this way (they can take turns doing him for hours or both knot him at once~). Which again, Wikstrom is hesitant about, but it’s one of those likely-not-gonna-get-this-chance-again situations, so both guys agree.So fast forward about a month and Cress is overjoyed to discover his plan did work, he’s pregnant. He doesn’t tell anyone initially other than his brothers, who he pretty quickly confesses the truth to (they’re not impressed, but they’ve always had each others backs no matter what, so they’ll support him regardless.  They just wish he had talked things through with them first).  He doesn’t mention anything to any of the guys right away, but it’s inevitable that they find out.  It’s a more immediate issue with Siebold and Wilstrom, who were the two who spent his heat with him, combined with Siebold being the one who meets with Cress the most frequently.  Both are shocked and surprised, but Siebold is the one who’s suspicious and accuses Cress of setting things up, despite how much he denies it. Wikstrom is mostly just panicked about potentially being a father with someone who he’s not even in a legit relationship with.  But both do insist on being involved with the pregnancy.  Once the kid is born and they figure out who the father is, they’ll decide what to do then. When Cress finds out he’s expecting triplets though, that’s when everyone is like “Do you think we’re going to end up with some half-siblings here…”  Wulfric doesn’t find out about the pregnancy until a ways in, since his meetups with Cress are so infrequent. While Cress hadn’t been intending to tell him he might possibly be the father of one of his babies, Wulfric manages to get him to fess up the next time they meet up. He doesn’t really get involved with the pregnancy itself, but they do come to an understanding that if Wikstrom and Siebold don’t end up being the father of any of the babies, Cress will get in contact with Wulfric to see if he’s possibly the father. Once the children are born, the doctors run tests to determine who’s the father of each child.  Wulfric gets called in once neither Siebold or Wikstrom are a match for Laurel. The entire situation is…less than ideal for the fathers involved.  But they do all discuss the situation together and come to an agreement to be involved in the children’s lives, but still mostly give custody to Cress.It’s not a peaceful agreement though.  Siebold in particular is the least happy about the situation and it’s actually Wulfric who is very firm about them not fighting for custody of the children.  Nothing good will come of that. For the children’s sake, it’s best if they’re all raised together.  One of Cress’ concessions is he gives each child the last name of their biological father.  As a result, the children all end up knowing from a young age who their father, as it’s not treated as a secret.  While the children all live with Cress in the shared home he has with his brothers, they all visit their father’s on occasion as well. It’s also common for when one kid visits their dad, the other two (and later Sorrel) will tag along as well.  So it’s certainly an odd situation, but they make it work. As for characters, Lavender and Laurel aren’t super developed.  Lavender is the more outgoing sibling, falling into that lady-knight persona I was considering for Wikstrom/Sawyer’s daughter, but instead got passed onto Lavender.  Laurel is the shy, soft one, being more introverted than his sisters.  Together, they form a spectrum of Laurel on the introverted side, Sage in the middle, and Lavender as the most extroverted.  Their “sensibleness” follows a similar trend. Laurel gets too caught up in the details and over thinks things, Lavender rushes ahead without thinking things through, while Sage is the most sensible one, finding a balance in the middle.Wulfric is also the best overall “dad” in the sense that he doesn’t show as obvious favoritism for spending time with Laurel over his siblings.  It’s pretty obvious with both Siebold and Wikstrom that they’re more invested in “their” child, even if they try to include the others.  Wulfric is much better about being fair in including them all, and connects with Sorrel as a stepfather better than Siebold does, even though Siebold is the one Cress is “with” while Wulfric always remains at the “friends-with-benefits” stage (Wikstrom swears off ever hooking up with Cress again). But Laurel does have a special place in his heart as his little boy. It’s not the way he would have chosen to have a son, but he doesn’t regret the situation.  None of them do, in the long run.